Discourses Concerning Government

Written in response to Sir Robert Filmer’s Patriarcha (1680), the Discourses Concerning Government by Algernon Sidney (1623 — 1683) has been treasured for more than three centuries as a classic defense of republicanism and popular government.

Thomas G. West is Paul and Dawn Potter Professor of Politics, Hillsdale College.

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• Author
• Algernon Sidney

• Format
• hardcover

• Pages
• 645

• Publisher
• Liberty Fund Inc.

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780865971417

• Genres
• philosophy, politics, history

• Release date
• 1996